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10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments FabulousBro
Every week I present a new book, that is in my opinion crap that somebody has published... The event runs under the hastags 🙈 #RandomThingsTuesday #CrapGotPublished The next book of this series is the one with the lovely title: "Castration The Advan...
12 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Another lesson. Mr Heng got Jerrick to read all the third words in the Dolch list. Jerrick read most words clearly. It was time to move on. Mr Heng chose ‘laugh’ as it was a phonetically irregular word. He got his student to spell these words: la...
15 Jul 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Midnight Sorrow
Effects of "deep reading" also found in religious traditions *The lost skill of "deep reading" In the book "Net Idiot--What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," published in 2010 and increasingly more applicable today, journalist and sociologist...
7 Jun 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Bala
Most of the people think that we get our energy from the food that we eat. This is quite true but that alone is not the source of our energy. There are several other sources from which we get our energy. Even if we don't eat food for a day we will st...
19 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after you!" — Joseph Heller; Catch 22; Commonly misattributed to Kurt Kobain "If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention." — Origin Unknown, possibly a radio/TV show. (I did search...
4 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Our children are digital natives, so they are less attuned to sitting down quietly with a book and using their imagination to get into the characters’ lives. They are bombarded so much by visual and auditory stimuli that they find reading boring. Are...
22 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Dear colleagues, Sensei figured out something that baffled him when he was teaching at a primary school. Here’s my take: some multisyllabic words are ironically easier to pronounce than single-syllabic words because they contain less sounds...
21 Mar 2024 2 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti
If you haven’t been to your local library in a number of years, you might want to check it out again. Where the childhood library you remember was the place where you would go borrow some books, check them out, hold onto them for about a week or two...
13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
As a lover of books, I am familiar with the Japanese word “tsundoku”. It refers to letting books pile up on your bookshelf - unread. In fact, it even has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku#:~:text=Tsundoku%20(%E7%A9%8D%...
30 Jan 2024 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
This question came to me in the midst of spring cleaning yesterday. And I had a good look at my books to determine the three books that meant the most to me. Here are my picks: “What should I do with my life” (Po Bronson) Packed full of stories fe...
